Methadone Detox Clinics/Centers

Methadone Detox Centers Should Replace Methadone Clinics

Members of the public who know how methadone clinics operate and the sleazy,
illegal activities usually encountered around them, are calling for an
end to the barbarism of enslaving people to a life of methadone addiction.

Editorials in dozens of newspapers, TV and radio stations recently have
been calling for the taxpayer dollars being spent on methadone replacement
to be used for detox programs and rehab. Instead of switching heroin addicts
to methadone addiction, it makes more sense to just put the heroin addicts
into heroin detox and rehab programs.

Even some governments, including the United Kingdom, are calling for an
end to the sentencing of thousands of people to years of state-supported
methadone addiction.

The state should provide methadone detox programs for the victims of methadone
replacement, they say, and heroin addicts should be steered into suitable
heroin detox programs right at the outset.

Although heroin has been considered the primary addiction leading to methadone
replacement, there are plenty of people on methadone replacement programs
who were addicted not to heroin, but to prescription painkillers such
as OxyContin, oxycodone and hydrocodone, all basically “legal heroin”.

The fact that methadone is even more difficult to get off than heroin —
some say as much as 2 or 3 times as difficult — only emphasizes
how beneficial it would be for all concerned to do away with methadone
replacement and just get on with detox and rehab.

Continuing with addiction instead of curing it is not just cruel, it is
dangerous. In Florida, deaths from methadone doubled from 2003 to 2007,
from 367 deaths in 2003 to 785 deaths in 2007.

It just makes compassionate as well as financial sense to nip addiction
sooner rather than later. Methadone replacement is a “hope for the
best” that somewhere down the road, the methadone addict will finally
decide to get clean.

Hey, if they decided to get off heroin and onto methadone, there is plenty
about drug addiction they already don’t like. If someone can confront
that addict’s problem, and really cares to help, he (or she) will
get that person onto a detox program, not onto months, years or a lifetime
of methadone addiction.

A small Georgia county says “NO” to methadone clinics

While the barbaric practice of putting narcotic addicts on methadone and
convincing them that it’s an improvement continues across America,
the general public has become very disillusioned and, in some cases, embittered.

A typical example of the current public opinion of methadone clinics was
evident recently when the citizens of Dade County in extreme northwestern
Georgia blocked a proposed methadone clinic in their county. And it’s
the second time they’ve done it in recent years. These people just
don’t consider
methadone replacement any kind of treatment.

This time, the people of Dade County (not to be confused with Florida’s
Miami-Dade County) made sure no methadone clinics can ever get a foothold
on their turf. A groundswell of public outcries drove the county commission
to draft an ordinance outlawing methadone clinics anywhere in the county.

Commission Chairman Ted Rumley told the Dade County Sentinel that the public
reaction to the methadone clinic was no less than if it was “an
attempt to situate a toxic waste dump in Dade.”

“Not one person called in support of the proposed clinic,”
he said. “People just totally came unglued about it, not wanting
it in the county. I was averaging 15 to 20 calls a day.”

The council’s resolution read, in part: “Such a facility would
be inconsistent with and contrary to the public health, safety and welfare
of (Dade’s) citizens. Such a clinic would endanger the existing
enjoyment and use of the surrounding property in the county.”

Dade County’s experience is far from unique in America today. Hardly
a day passes that a news item from some county or town somewhere describes
how local citizens try to stop methadone clinics from opening.

Invariably, local officials are quoted as saying that drug detox and drug
rehab programs should be offered, not an open invitation to spend tax
dollars on years of publicly-funded addiction, along with the crime and
degradation that comes with most methadone clinics.

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The problem with methadone “clinics” — they aren’t clinics

The main problem with methadone “clinics” are the fact that
they simply deliver another addiction, not recovery from addiction like
a Novus Medical Detox Center methadone detox program. They just aren’t clinics.

So why are they called “clinics”? Aren’t clinics a place
where healing occurs? Let’s be honest. The term “clinic”
is a complete misnomer, and the public is getting wise to it. The word
“clinic” lends an air of medicality to the place. But since
there are rarely any doctors present, not to mention nurses or other medical
personnel, methadone “clinics” might better be called assembly
line drug pushers, not clinics.

Additional considerations are crime, traffic problems, degraded neighborhoods,
and various public expenses.

Here’s what happens: Addicts, from all walks of life, line up every
day to get their dose of liquid methadone. Most clinics serve anywhere
from a few hundred to many hundreds a day, seven days a week. The process
takes as long as it takes for your turn in the lineup, then swallow the
methadone, and you’re on your way for another 24 hours.

If you miss a day, you’ll get sick from withdrawal symptoms. You
can’t travel out of town, go on holiday, take a cruise, or do anything
that takes more than one single solitary day.

Before long, you need more methadone, and as time passes, more and more
and more methadone. Eventually you have a
high-dose methadone addiction that few methadone detox centers will accept.

Methadone detox is what reduces crime and brings recovery

The traffic methadone clinics generate can be hideous. Cars, trucks, vans
and hundreds of people coming and going, day and night, 7 days a week.
It’s difficult to imagine until you’ve seen it with your own
eyes. Also, most facilities have dozens of addicts hanging around outside,
often selling their methadone to other addicts or trading it for narcotics
such as OxyContin or even heroin.

The traffic and the crime have been faithfully recorded on videotape, all
over the country, in numerous television news reports and documentary
films. You can begin to understand why the people of Dade County, Georgia,
hollered long and loud to stop it from happening in their back yard.

While proponents of methadone clinics say the practice reduces drug crime
in the area, many law enforcement officials say nothing could be further
from the truth. They see no reduction in drug crime, or in the availability
and abuse of addictive drugs in the area.

If someone wanted to improve on methadone replacement, the only decent
suggestion is to just forget it and get into methadone detox. Right now.

Methadone detox means a drug-free life is possible right now

Novus Medical methadone detox is respected and sought out because it not only works, we also accept
high-dose methadone addictions — the kind developed by people who
have been subjected to methadone replacement.

Novus methadone detox program:

Accepts high-dose methadone dependencies and gets excellent results

Takes care of each individual’s special health requirements

Is supervised by a medical staff highly experienced in methadone detox

Provides the most effective medical methadone detox available

Cuts the pain and discomfort of methadone withdrawal to easily tolerable levels

Maintains and improves health with supplements and nutritional IVs with
vitamins, amino acids and minerals

Provides delicious, nutritious meals prepared to your taste.

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addictions present a number of issues for the human body, so we create
our IVs and diets to fit the needs of specific withdrawal symptoms.

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available for our residents. Each room is outfitted with a TV, telephone,
and access to the internet. We also provide educational classes that will
show you how the drug or alcohol of your choice affects your body. We
believe that to effectively fight off your withdrawal symptoms, it is
important to know what you are fighting against and what to be prepared for.

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